The dancers have plunged deep into their own creative instincts and made McGregor’s steps a powerful and moving reality. They have taken over and made Woolf Works a milestone in the life of the Royal Ballet. Don’t miss the dance event of the year.

The Four Fridas is a spectacular, outdoor theatre production celebrating the life and work of the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It brings together some of Britain's most exciting creative talent, inc… Continue Reading

Jonathan Watkins’ A Northern Trilogy is crowd-pleasing but intelligent, gently illustrating three comic monologues by Stanley Holloway (about Yorkshire pudding, a drunken soldier and a boy eaten by a lion) while stopping nicely short of literalism.

Whitley, whose Frames opened the evening, is a pretty successful young choreographer… There’s no doubt he can come up with exciting movement, but there’s also no doubt he needs refining before he really makes the big time.

With the revival of Lucinda Child’s Four Elements, you wonder why the American dance maker is so little seen in the UK. Made for Rambert in 1990, Elements is a mesmerising piece of modern classicism that evokes water, earth, air and fire without conspicuously portraying them.

It’s only in the long middle section evoking the miners’ embattled history that Dark Arteries realises its potential – and does so magnificently, in churning, seething ensembles of dance, shot through with heart-racingly combative virtuosity.